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...thumping speakers, filling the cavernous space. Two MCs. One mic. One shot. One opportunity...At least that’s how freestyle battles work in the movies. But Harvard hip-hop is hardly “8 Mile,” and a battle, organized by campus radio station last week, received mixed reviews from rappers and listeners alike.For starters, the event, held in the small confines of Harvard Square’s Massive Records, is slated to begin at 5 p.m.—well before dark. Despite the uncharacteristic warmth, blazers are more prevalent than wife-beaters. Wordy...
...entire army. We’re fighting under this flag, she thinks, and I am holding it, holding it for everyone else to see. Even out of uniform, sitting in her pristine pink room, she feels the same way. She is at her desk working on a paper, a radio broadcast of a basketball game playing in the background. Last year, she wouldn’t have noticed if the “Star Spangled Banner” came on. Now, she stops what she is doing, sits completely still in her chair, and listens. She can?...
...like the Clash, albeit a Clash with way too much studio time and a narcoleptic Joe Strummer. The lyrics are Gang of Four-lite, providing a faint-hearted critique of capitalism that doesn’t extend far beyond a complaint that not having money sucks. Dance-rockers Radio 4 provide the basis for the second track, “Middle Eastern Holiday,” and the album continues in a similar vein, trotting out monodynamic mid-tempo homages. The voice of lead singer John Archer sounds a bit like new wave heavyweight Joe Jackson, but stripped...
...Area radio and television stations carried both pleas for help from those left homeless or without power and pitches from contractors looking to make a sale or simply lend a hand. "There's reports of people gouging on prices, of people sticking it to people at their lowest moment on just about everything they need," one man said as he stood in line at an area store stocking up on enough beer to carry him through a couple of days. "It's just sick. These people are down...
...Friday evening, aspiring MCs battled their way to the top in Harvard’s first and well-attended freestyle competition held at Massive Records, a hip hop music shop on Mass. Ave. The contest, co-hosted by Harvard Radio WHRB and Massive Records, featured seven student competitors, some with names like Cheddar Ted and Killer Cali. But it was Hang Liu ’09, competing without an alias, who came out on top. The contestants went head to head in three rounds of competition. The final round featured two 45-second battles between Mikal N. Floyd-Pruitt...